Summer Vegetable Bake
Hey, here’s another way to use up some of that excess garden zucchini. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In large bowl, toss all ingredients except cheese together. Place into buttered 9 x 13 baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. Remove from oven, sprinkle with the jack cheese, and return to oven to bake for an additional 10 minutes or until cheese melts … Continue reading Summer Vegetable Bake
24-Hour Salad
Also called seven-layer salad, this showed up at a lot of our (indoor) summer celebrations. Straight from the 1960s, it’s too high in calories and cholesterol to be a good-for-you vegetable salad. But’s it’s delicious. In large glass bowl or trifle dish, layer from bottom: 3 cups lettuce; eggs (stand some on end around the edge of dish to decorate); peas; remaining lettuce; bacon; cheese; … Continue reading 24-Hour Salad
Lemon Buttermilk Cake
from Ania’s friend Sylvia Bishop Preheat oven to 325 degrees; generously butter a tube or Bundt pan. Cream sugar and butter; add yolks. Add flour, then buttermilk, soda, vanilla, and 1 teaspoon lemon juice. Beat egg whites on high speed until whites reach stiff peaks. Gently fold egg whites into batter. Pour batter into pan and bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour 15 minutes. … Continue reading Lemon Buttermilk Cake
Peanut Butter Blondies
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine eggs, sugars, peanut butter, butter, and vanilla; beat on medium speed until well blended. Add flour, baking powder and salt, and continue mixing until smooth. Spread evenly in buttered 9-inch square pan, and sprinkle the chopped peanuts over the top. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes – be careful not to overbake. Continue reading Peanut Butter Blondies
Cheese Marbled Brownies
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Melt chocolate and butter over low heat, stirring constantly. Gradually add honey to eggs, then add chocolate and vanilla. Add flour and baking powder to chocolate mix, and stir until dry ingredients are moistened. Pour half of the chocolate mix into buttered 9-inch square pan, and bake at 350 degrees at 10 minutes. While brownies are baking, combine cream cheese, … Continue reading Cheese Marbled Brownies
Grammy’s Crispy Brownies
These aren’t really crispy – they’re a thin, cake-like brownie with a crisp nut topping. But this is what she called them, so we’re sticking to that. Whatever they are called, they’re delicious. (TBH, Carla usually makes a double recipe because a single doesn’t last long enough.) Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. In a coffee cup, mix cocoa powder … Continue reading Grammy’s Crispy Brownies
Cat Head Biscuits
If you love reading about food, we presume you have already read Rick Bragg’s The Best Cook in the World. If you have not, do so now. Elsewhere, Bragg has written about the glory of his mother’s cathead biscuits, but for reasons best known to himself, did not include the recipe for them in that book; so far, we haven’t located it in his other … Continue reading Cat Head Biscuits
Baked Chicken Salad
Carla is deeply suspicious of any recipe that includes potato chips (except for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with chips in the middle – honestly, try it, tastes great), but Ania loved this. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Mix all ingredients except cheese and potato chips. Spread in baking dish; top with cheese, then chips. Dot with sliced olives. Bake at 400 degrees for 20-25 … Continue reading Baked Chicken Salad
BBQ Chicken Lettuce Wraps
Remove stems from mushrooms and clean; slice. Add oil to saucepan or wok and stir-fry chicken for 1-2 minutes over high heat; add mushrooms and cook another minute. Add salt, pepper, garlic and ginger and cook one minute more. Add zest, red pepper, water chestnuts and scallions. Cook another minute, then add hoisin sauce and toss to coat mixture evenly. Place chicken on serving plate … Continue reading BBQ Chicken Lettuce Wraps
German Sweet Rolls
In large bowl, dissolve yeast in water. Stir in milk, half cup of sugar, eggs, salt, and shortening or oil. Add enough flour (about 3-4 cups) to make a soft dough that pulls away from the sides of the bowl. Place dough on floured surface, then generously butter the inside of the mixing bowl (don’t bother to wash it first). Knead the dough up to … Continue reading German Sweet Rolls
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